Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:02 -0600 From: Eric Six <erics@sirsi.com> To: "'Patrick O'Reilly'" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative DNS ? Message-ID: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA683@stlmail.dra.com>
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The SOA for the domain is located in the actual file for the zone, at the
top of it.. ie..
@ IN SOA ns1.dillhole.com. root.dillhole.com.
That tell's it what NS is the SOA for that domain. If you have control of
the domain, that should match the name of the nameserver that file resides
on. Otherwise, you will get non-authorative answers.
Cheers,
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Reilly [mailto:bsd@perimeter.co.za]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:57 PM
To: art@pilikia.net
Cc: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: RE: Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative DNS ?
Arthur,
thanks for your reply. This is what I understood, but this one DNS server I
have simply refuses to realise that it is authoritative. The 'NS' record
matches the server, and the zone entry in the 'named.conf' file specifies
that this is a 'master' for the zone. I'm stumped!
Patrick.
-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur W. Neilson III [mailto:art@pilikia.net]
Sent: Monday, 11 March 2002 20:11
To: Patrick O'Reilly
Subject: Re: Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative DNS ?
a DNS server will answer authoratatively for domains which it
has a SOA record for i.e. if you do a whois for a domain and
you see the nameservers listed at the bottom of the whois output
those nameservers should answer authoratatively for that domain.
Authoratative nameservers are masters for the zones in their
database.
On 3/11/02 at 11:52 AM Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
>
>Hi all.
>
>What determines whether a DNS server will answer a query
>authoritatively, or not?
>
>I have two DNS servers on private networks serving their private domains
>as "master" servers according the named.conf. One responds
>authoritatively within its own domain, and the other always responds
>with this warning line:
>------------------------------
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name: www.domain.com
>Address: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
>------------------------------
>I cannot see what I have done differently!
>
>Regards,
>Patrick.
>
>
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